Lift Engineer

RPS are currently seeking an experienced Lift Engineer to join our progressive business and service our clients by providing consultancy services. This role will cover the locations of West London and South London.
The business is going from strength to strength, and this represents an exceptional opportunity to further your career through delivering quality engineering solutions and designs for projects which achieve and exceed our client’s expectations.
About The Design Business:
RPS Design Division delivers projects across multiple, niche sectors from residential housing developments, logistics, retail, aviation, healthcare, education, advanced manufacturing, data centres, energy and more as we strive to achieve the right balance between form and function when faced with competing priorities around sustainability, materiality, cost and constructability. Digitalisation is at the core of our delivery model allowing our clients and their stakeholders to really experience our designs right from project concept stage and through drawing on expertise spanning decades, industries and disciplines, we assist clients to harmonise design drivers through inspired engineering, architecture and development services.
RPS, A Tetra Tech company:
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.
What you’ll be doing:
This is an exciting role for an individual looking to progress their career within Lift Engineering within our industry leading team where we have an excellent reputation, offering a wealth of expertise in all sectors. We are offering a broad and varied role within a challenging and rewarding environment and you will be part of lift and escalator modernisation projects.
Duties include:
Designing
Reviewing of contractor’s proposals and drawings
Reviewing and commenting on Risk Assessments and Method Statements
Attend pre-start meetings.
The management of projects – i.e. New Lift and Escalator Installation projects (new build or lift replacement)
Account management and Lift Contract Management
Witness testing
Health and Safety site audits, Lift Maintenance Audits, Lift dilapidation audits and EN81-80 audits
Traffic analysis and calculations
Specification
FM, Maintenance and Compliance projects.
Trouble shooting
Occasional LOLER examinations
Regular reporting
Who we’re looking for:
To be successful in this role you will most likely have a NVQ3 or NVQ4 Lift Engineering. Previous experience within either Lift Engineering Consultancy or Project Management.
Additionally, you will:
Be experienced in working on projects creating specifications that are required.
Have a good technical background on various manufacturers equipment.
Good written and verbal communication skills
Analytically experienced with strong attention to detail
Have the ability to make decisions and be motivated.
Comfortable with autonomy with an appetite to drive innovation.
A team player
What we offer you:
We will provide you with a flexible, friendly, and creative environment to develop your skills and challenge yourself. We support our people to innovate, collaborate and build meaningful careers. Our network of people and knowledge will expand your horizons and give you access to a variety of interesting projects. The ability to work in and around Europe and afar, this is solely based upon the candidate’s appetite to travel and most certainly not a prerequisite for the role, however, the opportunity is there. These would be fleeting visits to capital cities.
Our employees are rewarded with competitive salaries, opportunities to invest and many other benefits including Excellent holiday’s + bank holidays, Option to purchase up to 5 extra days per year, Company pension scheme, Share Incentive Scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health Screening, Employee Assistance Programme, Professional Memberships and commitment to on-going CPD, company car or payment to utilise your own vehicle, Working from home. Ability to grow and progress within our organisation through clear paths of promotion.
About RPS:
We define, design, and manage projects that create shared value in a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Connecting with our global expertise we make it easy for our clients to create winning solutions for their communities and their clients. By being confidently pragmatic we solve problems that matter. We make complex easy. With expertise across a broad range of project types and scales – from individual buildings to entire precincts and cities - we guide projects as they move from initiation and scoping, to design and delivery. Our team offers integrated planning, design, technical and project management services to support developers to invest with confidence, streamline approvals and deliver projects that respect and enhance local communities.
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We know we develop better solutions together.
That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant.
An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.
Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.
Recruitment Agencies
We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.
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